Great vids, man! I've been waiting to hear the Musket V2 and now GAS is setting in. If you gave them back to him, you're a better man than me.

The mids in that new Musket is something I've been looking for...and it smells like a shopping day tomorrow. Kudos on your demo style...your speech has "attitude" and since I originally grew up in the North East, it's something I totally dig.

Yeah, I avoided giving my opinions on the pedals in the demo, because I was trying to keep them to a reasonable length.

The Musket is amazing. It has everything I ever liked about but solves every problem I ever had with Big Muffs. It took a lot of strength for me to not spend 10 minutes gushing about it.

The Mantra is a very cool beast. It's really high gain for an overdrive, and if you're looking for that transparent "just a bit of hair" kind of overdrive, this isn't it. It sounds like an amp that's getting pounded, on any setting. There isn't any diode clipping in it, it's just cascading transistor stages, which I dig. The bass knob a lot of range; you really don't have to worry about blending this bad boy.

It is, particularly if you roll your volume knob back a bit. But no matter what, it is still higher gain than the SFT I found. It also seemed to clean up better when using a passive bass. Unfortunately, I only had an active with me the night I recorded this.

Really sweet demo, BigChief! Yeah, the Musket sounded awesome! Now I understand the big deal... this is the first time I've GASed for a Muff variant since I parted ways with my green Russian Muff years and years ago. I believe that has officially made the list.

And the Mantra sounded great - I definitely want to try one with a passive. I like really gain-y drives, though, so it seems right up my alley no matter what. And the bass response was pretty amazing. Good stuff!